I need some advise on Routers. I have a Belkin G Router at the moment and it use to run smoothly. But now it shorts out after 45-60 minutes.So I need a new Router. Any suggestions? Like, what brands to hit and miss.

Most routers use the same internal components, so its not like your paying for something different on the inside, your basically paying for a name.

Linksys is the most fun to play with. Because you can upgrade the firmware and make those routers do amazing things.Belkin has an excellent Wireless-N router, it has an LCD on the front and shows you network up and down speeds and other information.

Personally, I'd go with Linksys for anything G related (Not the SpeedBooster, that shits just a gimmick)And I'd go with that Belkin N router for any N networks.

Wyrmkill wrote:Most routers use the same internal components, so its not like your paying for something different on the inside, your basically paying for a name.

Linksys is the most fun to play with. Because you can upgrade the firmware and make those routers do amazing things.Belkin has an excellent Wireless-N router, it has an LCD on the front and shows you network up and down speeds and other information.

Personally, I'd go with Linksys for anything G related (Not the SpeedBooster, that shits just a gimmick)And I'd go with that Belkin N router for any N networks.

Either way, both are fast.

The belkin (i think) your talking about has a really clumsy navigation system for that LCD, and it's on the top of the router, useless if you have a lot of things to stack.

I like Linksys, they used to be good, and now they are even better now that Cisco owns them.

Unless you do a lot of file sharing between computers on your own network, G should be fine, N isn't technically a standard, so there is the slight chance that newer N equipment will not be compatable with what you get now.

But it's up to you, Linksys and Belkin are good brands, i personally stay away from Netgear, but as Wrym said, they are all essentially the same (i think the netgear UI is just rubbish though...).

Wyrmkill wrote:Most routers use the same internal components, so its not like your paying for something different on the inside, your basically paying for a name.

Linksys is the most fun to play with. Because you can upgrade the firmware and make those routers do amazing things.Belkin has an excellent Wireless-N router, it has an LCD on the front and shows you network up and down speeds and other information.

Personally, I'd go with Linksys for anything G related (Not the SpeedBooster, that shits just a gimmick)And I'd go with that Belkin N router for any N networks.

Either way, both are fast.

The belkin (i think) your talking about has a really clumsy navigation system for that LCD, and it's on the top of the router, useless if you have a lot of things to stack.

I like Linksys, they used to be good, and now they are even better now that Cisco owns them.

Unless you do a lot of file sharing between computers on your own network, G should be fine, N isn't technically a standard, so there is the slight chance that newer N equipment will not be compatable with what you get now.

But it's up to you, Linksys and Belkin are good brands, i personally stay away from Netgear, but as Wrym said, they are all essentially the same (i think the netgear UI is just rubbish though...).

I would agree that Linksys it probably the best choice. I own a linksys wrt54g, running Tomato firmware it works like a charm.

Also, you might want to double check that the router isn't overheating. My old router would be on a carpeted floor and always overheated, it took me a bit too long to figure out the source of that problem

hooraybeer wrote:I would agree that Linksys it probably the best choice. I own a linksys wrt54g, running Tomato firmware it works like a charm.

Also, you might want to double check that the router isn't overheating. My old router would be on a carpeted floor and always overheated, it took me a bit too long to figure out the source of that problem